Password/encryption doesn't work?

I’m trying the trial version. I need to be able to send passworded zip files as .zip files to someone who knows the password, on both Windows and a Mac. I also don’t want anyone else who might use this computer to be able to open the passworded zip file without knowing the password. Therefore, I don’t want to use the PAE file type and I don’t want to enable the Password Manager.

But, when I try to encrypt the file with a password, it doesn’t ask me for a password when I try to open it and the zipped and supposedly encrypted file just opens as if it had no password. I’ve tried “Zip and options” from the context menu and unchecking Encrypt to PAE, whilst choosing Encryption > AES. I get asked to enter my password (twice) and it then zips it up, but I’m not asked for any password when opening the file. The same thing happens if I first zip the file from within PA, then try to separately encrypt it afterwards.

What, if anything, am I doing wrong please?

Also, if I want to zip a folder, how do I prevent it from creating a folder of the same name within the zipped folder (so as to avoid having to click twice)?

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But, when I try to encrypt the file with a password, it doesn’t ask me for a password when I try to open it and the zipped and supposedly encrypted file just opens as if it had no password. I’ve tried “Zip and options” from the context menu and unchecking Encrypt to PAE, whilst choosing Encryption > AES. I get asked to enter my password (twice) and it then zips it up, but I’m not asked for any password when opening the file. The same thing happens if I first zip the file from within PA, then try to separately encrypt it afterwards.

What, if anything, am I doing wrong please?

After creating the archive, you should either

Close PA and re-open PA to check archive OR

Verify the Option “Use same password for same session” is NOT active (as well as disabling Password Manager).

@Ihmemies:
I’m using 64-bit version of Vista Home Premium.
The zip I was extracting is 8,22GB. It has several 640MB files inside. So this is Vista’s fault, rather than PA’s, nice to know :p Altough I can’t understand why it’s doing whatever it’s doing…
there are some current kernel leaks in Vista that are not fixed in SP1. I tried one of the manual fixes and it does not solve this problem.
We are looking if we can do something differently so it does not happen.
Cancel issue will be fixed in future major update for sure (not sure if we are going to have any minor updates).
thanks

@spwolf:
there are no maximum sizes (practically unlimited)
Thanks, that’s great! 7zip is my favorite format by far. Maybe it takes a lot of memory, but it’s really good compression, and I have plenty of memory.

Open any encrypted archive and look at its properties. Under “Encrypted” it says No, which is incorrect. I only saw this on ZIP, CAB and 7-ZIP encrypted archives, because I’ve never bothered with other formats.
However, if I encrypt any other file (not an archive), it will show Yes.
Can someone verify this?
Why doesn’t PA register for ALL users? My PC is used by 4 people, and I had to register PA 4 times, 1 for each user account!
Thanks, keep up the good work! Awaiting PA 9.5……

The shell extension bug will be fixed.
I just tried extracting form main and creating empty folders worked fine for RAR files. I think extracting empty folders doesn’t work for CAB because CAB cannot save empty folders.

Using Windows Explorer, with the dir-tree in the left window, I’d like to select a few
directories in the right window panel and zip them using the directoryname as zip-file.
e.g. I have a number of directories in a ‘temp-dir’.
In the explorer right window panel I select a few and RMB-zip them, incl. subdirs, etc.
In the ShellExtentions - there is an option to extract to filename/ (multiple archives
into separate folders).
What about adding: Compress to filename/ (multiple archives into separate folders) ??
Thank you.
brgds